I Wanna Know If You Guys Really Know How To Spell, or, can we turn this auto-correct thing off and finger the fraudulent? (1 Viewer)

[rockaction]

I'm just wondering. Who really can spell and who can't?

What do you have? Can we get it turned off for a day? 

 

[WDIK2]

I get a red line under words that are misspelled.  May be a Chrome extension.  No auto correct.   

 

[rockaction]

I get a red line under words that are misspelled.  May be a Chrome extension.  No auto correct.   

Ah, I see. I think this works across browsers, though wouldn't it be great if I just assumed that everybody was making as many mistakes as I was?

Huh. Uncool. 

 

[AAABatteries]

I’m a good speller but don’t want anybody fingering me.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Back when I first got on this board, there was no red line.  Either you spelled it correctly or you didn't.  

Would always see "rediculous" and never knew if it was serious or a joke.  Eventually, it became a joke but not sure if it started that way.

 

[rockaction]

I’m a good speller but don’t want anybody fingering me.

Hard pass, GB. 

 

[rockaction]

Back when I first got on this board, there was no red line.  Either you spelled it correctly or you didn't.  

Would always see "rediculous" and never knew if it was serious or a joke.  Eventually, it became a joke but not sure if it started that way.

That might be why you don't have off tomarrow; or, even, tamorrow.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Big autocorrect fan, except when it messes something up because I fat fingered it

 

[rockaction]

Big autocorrect fan, except when it messes something up because I fat fingered it

Same here, I think. Tons of finger imagery there.

I'd just love to see one of the more brilliant posters (I'll refrain from using his or her name) just to get a glimpse of the imperfection that distance, anonymity, an automated editor, and general common sense gives us. 

 

[Cjw_55106]

I'm a decent speller...guessing top 25% of average people. Either way, I appreciate the auto-correct. 

 

[SWC]

i am a nachurally gifted speler take that to the bank bromigo

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I never mispell anything.

 

[belljr]

Teh spelcheck doesnt auotcorrect

 

[That one guy]

At the least, every then/than mistake should be met with a 1-day suspension 

 

[rockaction]

I never mispell anything.

Sucks being in a information vaccuum all the time, doesn't it? 

 

[rockaction]

At the least, every then/than mistake should be met with a 1-day suspension 

Let the gentleman speak!

 

[hagmania]

I never mispell anything.

Well, you didn't misspell "anything" in this post.

 

[hagmania]

There is only one word that I know I consistently get wrong, really have to think about: exercise. Lord, I go on an adventure with that word at times.

Maybe if I exercised more it would be easier to spell.

 

[rockaction]

Well, you didn't misspell "anything" in this post.

Free consultation?

No, money down!

 

[rockaction]

There is only one word that I know I consistently get wrong, really have to think about: exercise.

I, too, get it wrong all the time. Exercise. Just looks wrong.

And pretty sure it feels wrong, too. 

 

[AAABatteries]

I’m a good speller but don’t want anybody fingering me.

Big autocorrect fan, except when it messes something up because I fat fingered it

Especially this guy 

 

[Gally]

Spellcheck is diminishing the capability of all spellers.  It becomes a crutch that gets relied on so that you don't really have to know how to spell some of the more trickier words. 

 

[Kanil]

I spell like a chump champ.

 

[rockaction]

Spellcheck is diminishing the capability of all spellers.  It becomes a crutch that gets relied on so that you don't really have to know how to spell some of the more trickier words. 

Agreeance. 

 

[wikkidpissah]

i'm a spellin' mf, rockatron - shakin' dat a, shakin' dat a

 

[Spock]

Back when I first got on this bored, there was no red line.  

FYP

 

[Bob Sacamano]

There is only one word that I know I consistently get wrong, really have to think about: exercise. Lord, I go on an adventure with that word at times.

Maybe if I exercised more it would be easier to spell.

Certainly an issue someone of your intelligence can exorcise

 

[SWC]

At the least, every then/than mistake should be met with a 1-day suspension 

if you want me to stop posting just go on and say it take that to the bank bromigo

 

[WDIK2]

Spellcheck is diminishing the capability of all spellers.  It becomes a crutch that gets relied on so that you don't really have to know how to spell some of the more trickier words. 

As someone who was a terrible speller when I was younger, I think it has made me a better speller.  Learning tool.

 

[zamboni]

Worst speller ever - for the win.

 

[rockaction]

if you want me to stop posting just go on and say it take that to the bank bromigo

Oh man chacho you might be taking this internet ish too personal. We, of course, all have to have a direct way to the bank rather than any perceived passive-aggressiveness lurking in vaults.  But first we need to look inward. First, we clean up our side of the street more than others will which makes it easier, presumably. 

 

[rockaction]

i'm a spellin' mf, rockatron - shakin' dat a, shakin' dat a

I C U BABEE

so does Prince Rogers.

 

[SWC]

Oh man chacho you might be taking this internet ish too personal. We, of course, all have to have a direct way to the bank rather than any perceived passive-aggressiveness lurking in vaults.  But first we need to look inward. First, we clean up our side of the street more than others will which makes it easier, presumably. 

im just messing around but if gramer did get you suspension i would literally be suspended forever and that you can take to the bank brochacho

 

[Mookie]

Bunch of spelling loosers in this thread.

 

[rockaction]

im just messing around but if gramer did get you suspension i would literally be suspended forever and that you can take to the bank brochacho

Yeah, I figured. Well, good on ya. Hope you make it to banker's hours today or tmrw. 

 

[Ilov80s]

I have a typo in pretty much every post I make and never look to notice until after it’s posted. Surely I have the highest edit count on the board. I just don’t pay much attention and consider the post a first draft really. I spell real good though. 

 

[nirad3]

How odd, Finger the Fraudulent is the name of my Sex Pistols cover band.

 

[TheIronSheik]

I have a typo in pretty much every post I make and never look to notice until after it’s posted. Surely I have the highest edit count on the board. I just don’t pay much attention and consider the post a first draft really. I spell real good though. 

Sometimes I'll be missing a word or two because my mind is faster than my fingers.  Or I'll have a word in the sentence that even I can't figure out why it's there.  And I'm on a PC so it's not like autocorrect changed it.  It was all me, baby.

 

[Gally]

As someone who was a terrible speller when I was younger, I think it has made me a better speller.  Learning tool.

Maybe it just brings everyone closer to the middle.  Bad spellers use it to learn from and good spellers just don't care because they know spellcheck will catch it so they get lazy and end up as lesser spellers.  It's all a ploy to make everyone equally bad/good. 

 

[wikkidpissah]

How odd, Finger the Fraudulent is the name of my Sex Pistols cover band.

Hmmmm, mine is Phonygrabbers

 

[Ilov80s]

Sometimes I'll be missing a word or two because my mind is faster than my fingers.  Or I'll have a word in the sentence that even I can't figure out why it's there.  And I'm on a PC so it's not like autocorrect changed it.  It was all me, baby.

Yep- that’s exactly what happens to me- doesn’t matter on my computer or phone. 

 

[rockaction]

Hmmmm, mine is Phonygrabbers

Such a lyre

 

[Gally]

Sometimes my fingers just type more common versions of the correct word (where vs wear; whether vs weather; here vs hear) without me even realizing it has been done.  Then I re-read it after i submitted the post and can't figure out why I typed the wrong version of the word.  Baffling.

 

[rockaction]

Sometimes my fingers just type more common versions of the correct word (where vs wear; whether vs weather; here vs hear) without me even realizing it has been done.  Then I re-read it after i submitted the post and can't figure out why I typed the wrong version of the word.  Baffling.

It means that you haven't used the muscle memory with a keyboard often enough, I think.

Even in today's world, I'm actually being serious. Unless I'm getting up into one hundred or so WPMs, I don't have that problem.

But you don't write it out that way likely, because you might have grown up writing. 

 

[TheIronSheik]

Sometimes my fingers just type more common versions of the correct word (where vs wear; whether vs weather; here vs hear) without me even realizing it has been done.  Then I re-read it after i submitted the post and can't figure out why I typed the wrong version of the word.  Baffling.

Same.  Like, I know which is the correct one to use, but for some reason when I type fast, I'll put the wrong version.  And like you said, once I re-read what I wrote, I can see it immediately as wrong.  Never understood that.

 

[sports_fan]

Whose spelling champion: FBG edition?

 

[-fish-]

I'm an excellent speller and a slightly below average typist.   Whether typos show up in my work is a matter of proofreading.   There aren't too many errors in documents I submit to the court or prepare for clients.  Posts on forums?   I'm not proofreading them, but sometimes I'll go back and edit something really egregious.   

 

[Gally]

It means that you haven't used the muscle memory with a keyboard often enough, I think.

Even in today's world, I'm actually being serious. Unless I'm getting up into one hundred or so WPMs, I don't have that problem.

But you don't write it out that way likely, because you might have grown up writing. 

I am sure it has to do with muscle memory it's just weird that the memory would work that way since it is a completely different meaning word.  It's not like the words have the same meaning so my brain shouldn't equate the wrong word with what I am trying to type. 

It happens with "know" vs "no" as well. 

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Whose spelling champion: FBG edition?

Knot me.

 

[TheIronSheik]

I am sure it has to do with muscle memory it's just weird that the memory would work that way since it is a completely different meaning word.  It's not like the words have the same meaning so my brain shouldn't equate the wrong word with what I am trying to type. 

It happens with "know" vs "no" as well. 

One of the weirder ones for me is sometimes I'll put "are" when I mean "our."  I think it's because I'm saying the word in my head and my brain hear's what I'm saying and types it.  But I clearly know the difference between "are" and "our."